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Toothless is in love! New trailer, photos from 'How to Train Your Dragon 3'

We've got your sneak peek photos from 'How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World,' the third and final film in the animated franchise. There's a new villain (voiced by F. Murray Abraham) — and a new love interest for Toothless!

The alpha dragon from DreamWorks' animated franchise discovers that he's not the only one of his species left alive in a key reveal from the third and final Dragon film (in theaters March 1, 2019).

He discovers a stunning, fire-blasting female Light Fury.

"She is very rare, very elusive and very wild," says Dean DeBlois, who has written and directed each film since 2010's Oscar-nominated How to Train Your Dragon.

The final film will be a reckoning of sorts for the central duo, the silent Toothless and his human friend, Hiccup (voiced by Jay Baruchel), the cornerstones of an unlikely Utopia where dragons and Vikings, once enemies, exist together in harmony.

Toothless comes face-to-face with the elusive Light Fury for the first time in "How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World." It's dragon love.(Photo: DREAMWORKS ANIMATION LLC)

On one level, it's the emotionally clumsy Hiccup who has to train his fierce but clueless dragon companion in flirting rituals.

"Toothless is a complete bumbling amateur when it comes to issues of courting," DeBlois says. "He isn't in touch with his primal instincts for these love matters."

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The Hidden World serves as the final coming-of-age installment for Hiccup, who continues his own warrior relationship with the Viking warrior Astrid (America Ferrera). Hiccup has grown from clumsy son of Stoick the Vast (Gerard Butler) to Viking leader following Stoick's death in 2014's Train Your Dragon 2.

Hiccup's new world comes with heavy responsibilities — and the realization that humans and dragons might have different destinies.

But the two species fight a common foe, Grimmel the Grisly (F. Murray Abraham), the big-game hunter who stalked Night Furies into near-extinction. He greedily guns for the one big prize that has eluded him: Toothless.

"Grimmel is effective because he’s so smart, so dedicated to the hunt, so single-minded. He’s the perfect balance to goodness," Abraham says of his evil character. "We like his clarity; he knows exactly who he is."

DeBlois is just as clear and insistent that The Hidden World will mark the last foray for the characters, completing the film trilogy. "I wanted to give this a definitive end," he says.

He was inspired by author Cressida Cowell, who wrote the How to Train Your Dragon children's books upon which the movies are based. Cowell wrapped up the book series with her own explanation for why dragons aren't visible in today's world.

DeBlois will make this point clear in The Hidden World.

"Our narratives are quite different. But we will explain why dragons have disappeared into legend," says DeBlois. "And there are still questions: Could dragons come back? Are dragons still around? All of these will be answered in the third film."